non-tangential

I hope these aren't taken as some sort of deliberate choice for their colour, as a fashion statement or intended accent. Last year I was looking for something which didn't create large amounts of extremely tenacious grey-black dust during braking, either through breakdown of the brake compound or abrasion of the rim. When I was small the only time that brakes would make a hissing noise was when they'd been worn down so far that the hairy fabric stuff onto which the rubber was deposited had been revealed. With these nasty grey powdery things, hissing appears to be the normal noise for brakes; keeping the rims clean of road-grit during winter became fairly pointless when the brakes generated their own rim-coating grinding paste with every deceleration. These pinky things were described as being suitable for damp weather and gentle on rims, and have so far proved so to be. On the way home on properbike this evening the unnatural heat meant that the increasing tackiness of the similarly properly rubbery brake pads was palpable, along with the greater feeling of grip of the tyres on the road. The combination of squeaking/scraping noises produced by the extremely cheapyshite brake pad supplied with newoldbike were not pleasant; the amount of grey dust on the rim visible after the other night's hill-cobble test ride (before which I'd thoroughly cleaned the rims) bode ill for the integrity of the rims through prolonged use, so other repairs or upgrades have been bumped to next month in favour of upgrading the brakes to normalbike standard. The rear mudguard is also now in place (exhibiting much better clearance than the front, reducing the number of tyres I need to downgrade to a narrower setting) leaving just the seat to sort before regular use may commence.